Attempting to change his last name was Prince Harry because, according to a report in dailymail he had consulted on the matter with her Princess Diana.

The Duke of Sussex was actively exploring ways to get his mother’s surnamewhose name was Spencer – a move that would mean he would have to leave Mountbatten-Windsor, which his children, Prince Archie and Princess Lillibet, have owned.

reports say that he discussed the issue with his uncle Count Spencer during a rare visit to Britain, but he was informed that the process is complicated and the legal hurdles insurmountable.

“They had a very friendly conversation and Spencer advised him not to take such a step,”a friend of Harry’s said.

Nevertheless, the fact that he consulted the earl on the matter – a suggestion that would have caused disappointment to his brother and father – proves that the rift with his family is deep.

Mountbatten-Windsor is the surname that is held by the descendants of the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. It combines the royal family name Windsor and the adopted surname of the Duke of Edinburgh.

On their birth certificates, the children of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor and Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.

Royal author Tom Bauer has claimed that “Meghan decided that her real goal in life was to be the next Diana”. If the name change had been done, Meghan’s daughter, who is saidto have met her grandfather Charles only once, would be called Lilibet Diana Spencer and would be a fitting tribute to Harry’s late mother.

The move would be particularly damaging to King Charles, who loves the Mountbatten name as much as his father.

Mentor to Prince Philip, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma also exerted a strong influence on his great-grandson, the future King Charles.

Philip adopted the name Mountbatten when he became a naturalised British subject and renounced his Greek and Danish royal title in 1947. The Queen and Philip decided in 1960 that they would like their own direct descendants to be known as Mountbatten-Windsor.

Names and titles are an extremely sensitive subject for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They were given the Sussex titles by Queen Elizabeth on their wedding day in 2018.

Meghan recently insisted her surname is Sussex, correcting a guest on Netflix’s cooking and lifestyle program.